Fort Lewis equipment from Iraq unloaded at Tacoma

TACOMA -- Stryker vehicles and other equipment used by a Fort Lewis Stryker brigade when it was in Iraq are being unloaded from a transport ship at Port of Tacoma.

More than 900 vehicles and hundreds of cargo containers are being returned to the fort for the 4-2 Brigade, the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. The ship, the Brittin, arrived Tuesday at the port.

When the equipment was shipped in March 2007, anti-war protests led to the arrests of 37 people while police agencies spent $1 million for security.

News Tribune of Tacoma reports a handful of protesters from Port Militarization Resistance group showed Wednesday night and one was arrested for obstructing a police officer and two others were given trespassing warnings.